426, Lot: 533. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19.1mm, 6.84 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 147. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head left / TR PO T COS IIII, Roma, helmeted and draped, seated left on throne, feet on footstool, holding palladium on extended right hand and vertical spear with left; round shield set on ground to right. RIC III 147c var. (laureate head right); Calicó 1655 var. (same); BMCRE 557 var. (same); Biaggi 765 var. (same). VF, some light scratches and marks, two repaired holes. Rare with laureate head left.